Joan Manley

CFTC Orders Texas-based PassThrough Investments, LLC, and its principals, Stephen Brantley and Dwayne Bryant Dawson, to pay more than $1.1 million in sanctions to settle CFTC Charges of fraud in operating a forex trading pool.

Complaint alleges cross-market trading scheme in 2008 involving accumulation and sell-off of a substantial position in physical crude oil to manipulate futures prices, yielding in excess of $50 million in unlawful profits for defendants.